AI-Lawyers Will Have Fools for Clients
Lazy lawyers have no doubt filed hallucinated content orders of magnitude more often. Source
Lazy lawyers have no doubt filed hallucinated content orders of magnitude more often.
With OpenAI in an increasingly precarious financial position, and Sam Altman’s reputation in a similarly precarious position, others have stepped into the breach with implausibly optimistic predictions about the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude.
In a recent Financial Times interview, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, said that AI is on the cusp of “professional-grade AGI” that will deliver “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” and, as a consequence, most of the work currently done by accountants, lawyers and other professionals “will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.” (I will assess his prediction 18 months from now. Anyone want to wager on its accuracy?)
Suleyman’s unrealistic blather is deeply reminiscent of AI guru Geoffrey Hinton’s 2016 assertion that, We should stop training radiologists now, it’s just completely obvious within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.
Ten years later, the demand for human radiologists is stronger than ever.
